Location
Located at Dumpu.

Construction
Prewar airfield.

Wartime History
In middle 1942 the single runway was 700 x 90 x 2200 yards, hard dry grass with good approaches. Facilities are described as native houses, no food, water. Natives speak pidgin English. Airstrip can be lengthened to 2100 yards.

The site was surveyed for one all weather aerodrome of two parallel airstrips for fighters, but was never completed by the US Army Engineers, only preliminary construction was carried out. The project was canceled after a new US Army policy decision on January 8, 1944 that deemed a full strip unnecessary, as the fighting had moved on to the north and west. Despite this, several aircraft used Dumpu as an emergency landing strip, or crashed there.

No 1 Strip
Located closest to the Dumpu, a single strip that ran roughly parallel to the Uria River.

No 2 Strip
Parallel to the Ramu River, this single strip had a line of despersial areas to the north of the strip. Located near the West Base area of Dumpu.

P-40N Warhawk Serial Number 42-105861
Fuselage section recoverd in 1974 and shipped to United States

C-47 Dakota
Abandoned at the airfield

References
Notes about New Guinea airfields, recorded circa May - July, 1942 by Oliver C. Doan via Jean Doan research Edward Rogers

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